Sunday, April 9, 2017

In the summer of 2004 I went to continental Europe for the first time. I was going to live in a handful of countries, and even had work visas for a couple... but in the end it simply became a 3-month trip post-college graduation. This was the last international trip I took without using a digital camera, and my photo albums have been collecting dust for more than a decade. I've decided to digitize the photographs in a very simple and very cheap (in every sense of the word) way = by using my cell phone camera. It's a lot easier than tearing them out of scrapbooks and scanning them, lemme tell ya. While Paris, France, wasn't the first destination of my trip, I've decided to begin my blog posts with it. I spent 5 days there immediately after Bastille Day (I intentionally missed it due to hotel expenses and museum closures, but in hindsight I should have been there for the festivities). One could spend a lifetime in Paris and not see all of it (which is true of most places), but 5 days would have to suffice. Other than a one-day stopover in September of that year en route to Ireland from Switzerland, I haven't been back to Paris since.

Sacre-Coeur, in Montmartre.

My first time seeing the Eiffel Tower was from the dome of Sacre-Coeur.

Sacre-Coeur

Sacre-Coeur

Place du Tertre, Montmartre

Au Lapin Agile, a famous cabaret in Montmartre.

Needs no introduction.

Champ-de-Mars, below a certain tower.

Chaillot Quarter across the Seine, from the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower.

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I'm a Bay Area native with a love-hate relationship towards my homeland... so I try to get out as much as I can, so that I eventually come to miss it! Oh, and I'm the teacher of some of the best kids in the world.